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A little more than two years ago, my friend Peter invited me to join him for a road trip along Australia's southeast coast in his beautiful Aston Martin DB9. With an offer like that, how could I possibly refuse?

All told, we drove about 2,500km from Sydney to Melbourne and then along the legendary Great Ocean Road, before returning to Sydney one week later.

It was an amazing experience, and a road trip that I won't ever forget.

Which is why I was so happy to stumble across this photograph I made at the Twelve Apostles in Port Cambpell, Victoria while tidying up some folders on my laptop recently.

This image reminded me of that wonderful week away and, in particular, the breathtaking natural beauty of Australia's Great Ocean Road.

Visit my website to see more of my landscape photography, and see more of my "From the Vault" series of imagery here.

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I was tidying up my Lightroom catalogue a couple of weeks ago and stumbled across these forgotten photographs of model Julianne from our recent Ei8ht magazine fashion shoot at the dusitD2 Baraquda property in Pattaya.

No photographs from this series were published in the Eight magazine fashion spread, as the art director didn't feel that the dress fit with the rest of the shoot's "colour blocking" wardrobe styling. However, the stylist loved the dress and asked me to shoot a few quick frames just for fun.

I agreed and we walked outside to find an interesting corner to make some fast photographs. This small shrine sat off in the corner of the hotel parking lot, and we agreed that the combined colours of the dress, the model's hair and the shrine complimented one another well. Although we didn't have any lighting set-up (or even a reflector at hand), the stylist and I gave Julianne a bit of direction, and I started banging off some frames.

I made just over 20 photographs in those few moments; these are three of them. I love finding hidden gems like these.

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As part of both my ongoing Diana Experiment and From the Vault series, here is a photograph (actually, two photographs, merged together) that I stumbled upon yesterday while combing through one of my studio hard drives in search of something else entirely.

I made these images on my trip to Sydney, Australia last August. It was my last night in town, and I had a few hours to kill before meeting some friends for dinner, so I walked from my hotel down to Circular Quay with my hi-fi/lo-fi set up in tow (a Nikon D3x fitted with a Diana+ 55mm Wide Angle lens).

I wanted to make some long-exposure night photographs of the Sydney Harbour, but I didn't have a tripod with me. However, after some searching, I was able to find some ledges and railings to rest my camera on while shooting. These images are the result of my efforts that evening: two 5-second exposures of the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House fused together in Photoshop.

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To supplement an editorial commission that I'll be photographing next week, I spent the better part of this afternoon trolling my archives for relevant, recent Singapore stock imagery.

For me, this process of combing through my hard drives of old images involves looking beyond just the photographs that I selected or "flagged" during my initial edit. Instead, I take the time to look holistically at the entire shoot and all my raw captures, regardless of how mundane they might be. It might seem like a waste of time to some people, but I enjoy it because it allows me an opportunity to see my work with fresh eyes, showing me how my own photographic style has changed over time. I also love it for the one or two images that I always seem to stumble upon that make me wonder why I didn't do anything with them the first time around.

I consider myself more of a "people photographer" than a "landscape photographer". But this panorama -- made a couple of years ago from high in a Housing Development Board (HBD) flat looking out across a sea of apartments in Singapore's Ang Mo Kio neighbourhood whilst shooting a feature for the UK edition of GQ Magazine -- is one of those photographs that I "found" today.

I am struck by how small everything appears below, but even more by the homogeneity in the picture; it makes me feel like I am looking out across a Singapore Legoland.

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